One Month Later: What Exactly Was the Point?
Today marks one month since the escalation of violence involving the United States, Israel, and Iran.
And I’m still asking the same question:
What exactly was the point?
Because if, as American officials have repeatedly stated in recent weeks, “regime change is not the goal and never was,” then what are we looking at?
According to multiple international reports, hundreds of civilians' residential areas, hospitals, and essential services - has been damaged or destroyed. Humanitarian organizations warn that millions could be affected if the situation continues. This is not a strategy. This is devastation.
And yet, the messaging remains: no regime change, no long-term plan.
So again—what was the point?
I Don’t Celebrate Death - Not Even Theirs
Let me be clear about something before anyone tries to twist my words:
Yes, this regime has committed serious crimes. Yes, it has shown little regard for human life. Yes, countless innocent people have suffered under it.
But I do not celebrate death. Not even theirs.
Because reducing human life to something “deserved” is exactly how cycles of violence continue.
For many people, the leader of that regime was not just a political figure. He was a symbol, even a spiritual authority - comparable, for some, to how others view religious leaders.
You don’t have to agree with that. But you cannot ignore what that loss represents to millions.
The Thank You That Makes No Sense
What has shocked me most over the past weeks is something I genuinely cannot understand:
Iranians - inside and outside the country - posting “thank you” messages to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Thank you… for what exactly?
This is not liberation. This is not support. This is destruction—plain and simple.
Cultural heritage sites, museums, and historic areas have reportedly been damaged or threatened. And even when numbers are debated, the pattern is clear: war does not preserve culture - it erases it.
So I’m asking openly:
Why are you thanking the ones contributing to that destruction?
Let’s Stop Pretending There Is Unity
There’s another uncomfortable truth people don’t want to hear:
There is no real hambastegi - no real unity.
Let’s be honest.
Different groups are already positioning themselves:
- Pahlavi supporters
- Mojahedin factions
- Various opposition movements
Each one believes they will rebuild Iran.
But rebuild what?
Within weeks, entire neighborhoods have been damaged. Infrastructure is unstable. And more importantly:
An entire population is traumatized.
About whether they will wake up tomorrow.
The Reality No One Talks About
Yesterday, after weeks of silence, we finally heard from relatives.
They are alive.
But they are living through hell.
This is the same family I once wrote about in “Sky, 12 Days of Terror.”
And now they are back in that nightmare.
Except this time, it’s worse.
They ask questions I cannot answer:
What am I supposed to tell them?
The truth?
How do you comfort someone when even the global narrative is uncertain?
And Then There Is the Silence Around Us
And here’s the part that broke something in me on a different level:
Not one person around us here in Zurich - neighbors, acquaintances, even people who call themselves friends - reached out.
Not one simple message:
Nothing.
That kind of silence is its own kind of violence.
It shows how quickly empathy disappears when the suffering is not right in front of you.
And honestly?
It makes me sick. These people have no heart. No emotion. We don't only live in a ghost house, we live in a ghost town, a ghost country!
Trying to Function While Falling Apart
On the outside, I keep going.
I work on my music. I focus on my Egyptian album. I try to stay productive.
But inside?
This is what it looks like to live between two realities:
One where life goes on.
And one where everything is falling apart.
Final Question
Then what exactly are people dying for?
And maybe the most bitter irony of all: the same country that warns the world about nuclear threats is also the only one that has ever used nuclear weapons in war - killing over 150,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most of them civilians
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